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| I'm 9 months! |
Grace is now 9 months old! Time flies even more quickly with the second child and looking back at pictures from 9 months ago when she was born, I feel like it was only a couple days ago. Now, we're looking at ideas for her 1st birthday party! She is incredibly active and busy. Last week she even stood up from a sitting position. Since that time she's done it a couple more times. We're having fun putting her into a standing position and letting her balance herself too. She's getting pretty good at it! She's walking with the walker cart all the time, walks along furniture constantly, and with the help of a hand can takes steps. I can't imagine it will be too long before she's walking right next to William!
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| This past week standing and balancing alone |
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| Loves the playground |
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| Standing up a few weeks ago with the help of the chair |
Grace eats 2-3 times a day and loves food. William is always sneaking her something. I have to watch out because she will gladly take anything - a large carrot that William is snacking on for example! She likes peas, bits of cheese, blueberries, anything! Dropping bottles will be extremely easy for her. She loves bottles, but seems to LOVE food even more. She's still at 4 bottles a day - around 28 oz total.
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| Loves to watch the action |
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| Scrunches her nose up a lot |
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| Wrestle mania with these two |
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| Big laughs with big brother |
Napping twice a day and sometimes a 3rd time if her 2nd nap doesn't go later in the afternoon. 9a and 12:30p are the two nap times. If she does a 3rd then it's around 5/5:30p for a very short amount of time. She gets so cranky at dinner time if she didn't get a late 2nd nap. Same issue from last month... I should probably push the 2nd nap back, but it's nice to bring her and William upstairs for nap time at the same time.
Her favorite stuffed animal is a colorful flowery bear that was a gift. She sleeps with a white blanket like big brother's (I wonder if she'll grow as attached as he is to his blanket). She's always chewing on William's die cast cars. A rolling ball that makes noises and sings songs is another fun toy recently. She even picked it up and stood up with it this past week! Matt watched the whole thing. She loves to bounce up and down and shake her booty - too funny! She's waving "hi!", shakes her head "no!" and clapping her hands together. She will play peek-a-boo with a blanket and pulls it up over her face... too cute. She thinks it's hysterical if you pretend to chase her. She turns the other way and tries to crawl super fast. Climbing the stairs is a piece of cake. The other day when I turned my eye away for a minute, she climbed up to the landing... eesh. We pulled out the baby gate to block the way from now on. Miss Independent even likes to crawl back to the playroom by herself. She knows where the good stuff is!
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| She loves her flower bear! |
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| Her hair is getting longer and gets messy if you don't brush it! |
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| Sipping water from the baby pool |
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| Animal watching at the Animal Kingdom |
We had her 9 months wellness visit as well. She did great and nothing big to report. Right on track with growth and all her milestones. She had one shot.
Weight: 18 lbs. 14.5 oz. / 63%
Height: 29" / 92%
She plateaued at 6 months a little, but apparently spiked up at 9 months to where she's been all along. Must be all the food she's stealing from William!
Oh and she has a big noggin! 95% for her head circumference.
She's clear to eat everything, but honey and whole milk. And we won't be going back until 1 year! Knock on wood, but we haven't had any fevers or big sickness from her yet. Pretty wild considering William has caught a few bugs this past year and he's constantly exposing to her to germs. If his cup is laying around then she's going after it. Only runny noses and a cough for Grace so far. Nothing we would need to see a doctor.
Always smiley and always happy, Miss Grace! Looking forward to the next month!
